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Shcherbytsky made a famous speech at the
CPU congress in Russian, thus, giving an
example. Since then, the Russian language
was used at all official meetings.
Summer The appeal of representatives of Ukrainian
1979 liberation movement to UNO regarding
decolonization of Ukraine.
December, 25 The USSR broke out a war in Afghanistan,
1979 which lasted for 10 years, up to February, 15,
1989. During the years of that foreign war the
youth of the 80-ies was killed, morally and
physically disabled. Ukraine lost 3360
soldiers as killed (3280 were killed, 80 were
missing), 8000 were wounded, many became
invalids. There are more than 150 thousand of
participants in that war are living in Ukraine
now.
January The beginning of the bulletin publication
1980 “The Bulletin of Repressions in Ukraine”
abroad. It was compiled and edited by Nadiya
Svitlychna, who had emigrated to the USA.
Summer Sumer Olympic Games were conducted in
1980 Moscow. Partially competitions took place in
Kyiv. Many countries, the USA in particular,
boycotted the Olympic Games, having
declared the USA a country-aggressor due to
the war in Afghanistan.
1982 The 1500-th anniversary of Kyiv foundation.
May The plenum of CC CPSU approved the Food
1982 program. It was planned to supply population
with essential food for 8 years. By the
consumption level per head of the USSR took
the 77-th place in the world then.

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